What are the responsibilities and job description for the Senior Counsel, Corporate Transactions position at Kaiser Permanente?
As a member of the Legal Departments Health Care Business Law Practice Group, this position provides legal counsel and support to Kaiser Permanente business entities regarding complex health care transactions. This lawyer will partner with our business partners and clients on complex transactions work for Kaiser Permanente, including drafting and negotiating contracts with institutional providers, such as hospital systems, as well as large physician organizations, affiliations, mergers/acquisitions and new ventures. This is a broad transactional practice supporting Kaiser Permanente’s operations as health plans and integrated delivery systems in California, Colorado, District of Columbia, Georgia, Hawaii, Maryland, Oregon, Virginia, and Washington.
Essential Responsibilities:
- Advise Kaiser’s enterprise-wide leadership on complex transactional work, including structuring, negotiating and drafting documents to support:
- Arrangements with institutional providers (such as hospitals and hospital systems, skilled nursing facilities, ambulatory surgery centers, and dialysis centers), physicians and physician groups, ancillary providers (such as imaging, laboratory, and durable medical equipment), rental networks and other health-related entities;
- Affiliations, mergers, acquisitions and new ventures.
- Serve as a subject matter expert, educational resource, and strategic adviser to business leaders and colleagues on all aspects of health care transactions, including the regulatory overlay applicable to health plans and providers.
Qualifications:
- A minimum of eight (8) years of health care law experience, including a minimum of five (5) years of healthcare transaction experience.
- Bachelors degree. Juris Doctorate degree required.
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- Solid work ethic, excellent interpersonal and communication skills (written and verbal), and sharp analytical skills.
- Ability to work independently and to work collaboratively as part of a team.
- Applicable bar license or willingness to obtain such license within two years is strongly expected.
- A working knowledge of nonprofit corporate governance, tax exemption, health care law (e.g., regulation and licensing of institutional and professional providers), managed care law and core health care transactional law (e.g., fraud and abuse and Medicare/Medicaid reimbursement regulations).
- Experience providing interpretation and analysis of statutes, regulations, and institutional and professional provider practice standards, processes and procedures.
- Superior writing and analytical skills based on substantial experience advising complex organizations with interaction between legal entities
- Excellent academic and professional qualifications.
- A minimum of ten (10) years of general health care law experience, including a minimum of eight (8) years of complex healthcare transaction experience strongly preferred.
******This position has a target base salary of $260,000 to $325,000 and is eligible for incentive compensation, comprehensive health, wellness, time off, savings, and retirement benefits, as well as relocation support, as applicable.
